Friday, July 20, 2007

The Ultimate Normblog Profile

For several years now, one of the regular features that Norman Geras--political theorist, public intellectual, cricket enthusiast, and born-again Alpha Blogger--has run on his weblog (Normblog) is a series of on-line interviews with other bloggers. More specifically, he sends out a questionnaire with 50 questions and asks the subject to respond to 30 of them.

(I had the honor of being inducted into this club myself back in June 2006. My Normblog Profile is HERE.)

=> As one might imagine, these profiles have covered a wide and diverse assortment of characters. But now Norm has profiled an especially interesting subject ... Norman Geras. Have a look:

About Me

Jeff Weintraub is a social & political theorist, political sociologist, and democratic socialist who has been teaching most recently at the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and the New School for Social Research, He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 2015-2016 and a Research Associate at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College.
(Also an Affiliated Professor with the University of Haifa in Israel & an opponent of academic blacklists.)